Early start this morning for a trip out to South Plaza Island, which is just a short distance offshore of on the north-east of the main island of Santa Cruz, where I am staying.
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Tuesday and woke to a beautiful morning, with blue skies and super views from the deck of my luxury tent at the Eco Safari Lodge. For the first time since I left home, I am in no hurry this morning and have no actual schedule, except to explore and enjoy at my own pace.
So, after breakfast, had a wander in the brush surrounding the camp, seeking out the many birds here – lots of types of finch especially. Then down into Puerto Ayora and off to Tortuga Bay. From where the road ends, it is about a 45 min walk, through cactus tree woods, with lots of birds and geckos, to the beach and then, well, it’s a bit like last week – you get so excited seeing your first penguins and then come across loads; today, it was the marine iguanas, so many around that you have to be careful walking up the beach and don’t mistake one for a strand of seaweed!
Very interesting though, particularly watching them come in and out of the surf. Later, went down to the harbour – lots of pelicans, frigate birds, Galapagos petrels and dark grey lava gulls – with every now and then, sea turtles popping up for air and seal lions too. Puerto Ayora is a buzzing little port and it’s hard to believe I am in the middle of the Pacific, it is so Spanish!
Delicious dinner of grilled whole local fish. Off to Plaza Island tomorrow for some land iguanas…
MS Ocean Nova, Deception Island, Whalers Bay
Earlier this season, Wildfoot Travel’s Simon Rowland travelled to Antarctica using the flight across the Drake Passage, rather than sailing across the Drake Passage to and from Ushuaia. Here is his first hand account of this unique express trip to enjoy Antarctica’s gleaming white wilderness.
Earlier this season, Simon Rowland from Wildfoot Travel travelled to Antarctica using the flight across the Drake Passage, rather than sailing across the Drake Passage to and from Ushuaia. The following is instalment 1 of 2 of his impressions of the trip. Continue reading
